EPILOGUE: ROMAN
She lay on the bed, her thick, long black hair gently spread out over the white pillow, making her look like an angel.
One of God’s sacrifices, sending her down to tame the Devil.
And instead, the Devil took her and kept her.
She tried to run from me.
I didn’t know if she loved me, and it didn’t seem to matter at this point because she tried to run away, and I didn’t know what to do with all the energy I had built inside me.
I didn’t know how to be the kind of man that didn’t scare her, and I knew I had scared her.
I saw the fear in her eyes right before the drug took effect, saw the way she had recoiled from me, as if she thought the same hands that had brought her to ecstasy would hurt her in the next breath.
She didn’t know I was incapable of that, but it didn’t matter because she still tried to. Fucking. Run. Away. From. Me.
I sat down on the side of the bed and watched her .
Her eyes were closed, and whatever dreamland she was in right now, I hoped it wasn’t a nightmare.
Perhaps she would want to stay in that dreamland.
Perhaps she wouldn’t want to face her reality.
It didn’t matter because this was her reality now.
I was her reality.
And she better brace herself.
I wasn’t fucking letting her go.
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